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Levels is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. According to the 2000 census, the Levels community has a population of 147. [2] It is home to John J. Cornwell Elementary School. The community was so named on account of the relatively level original town site. [3]
This is a list of lakes in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Ada Lake; Alpine Lake ...
Summersville Lake is a reservoir located in the US state of West Virginia. The lake is formed by a rock-fill dam (Summersville Dam) on the Gauley River, south of Summersville in Nicholas County. It is the largest lake in West Virginia, with 2,700 acres (1,100 ha) of water and over 60 miles (97 km) of shoreline at the summer pool water level.
Jennings Randolph Lake is a reservoir of 952 acres (3.85 km 2) located on the North Branch Potomac River in Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia. It is approximately 8 miles (13 km) upstream of Bloomington, Maryland , and approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Elk Garden, West Virginia .
The northern panhandle is one of the two panhandles in the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is a culturally and geographically distinct region of the state. It is the state's northernmost extension, bounded by Ohio and the Ohio River on the north and west and the state of Pennsylvania on the east.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in West Virginia. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Nicholas County is a county located in the central region of U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,604. [1] Its county seat is Summersville. [2] The county was created in 1818 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor Wilson Cary Nicholas. [3]
The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England. It lies between Carlisle to the west and Darlington to the east, straddling the borders of the counties of Cumbria , Durham , Northumberland and North Yorkshire .